Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got some of that washing powder these were all on about and a few of them had got it , automatic washing powder , it 's only one ninety nine for a three point five box . |
| 2 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 3 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 4 | It is rather as if a burglar , when sued for the recovery of the stolen property or its value , sought contribution from a security guard who , by falling asleep while on duty , had made the burglary possible . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's this , Sep ? ’ said Tom Tedder , coming in from his last class , and acting rather as if a load was now off his mind , or as if he was trying to conceal one . |
| 6 | It was held that the income arising from the £2M was to be assessed basically as if a new source of income had arisen , ie there had been an addition to the account within s66(3) and the income arising from the addition would be assessed on an actual basis during the early years . |
| 7 | His very own face frowned back at him doubtfully as if a homunculus was imprisoned in the card , a mute model of himself . |
| 8 | This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance . |
| 9 | The examiner is quite entitled to set questions on any topic in the syllabus regardless of whether a lecture on it has been given or not and you should look out for the " old foxes " . |
| 10 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
| 11 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 12 | Since the distance and aperture remain the same , only more or less of the same picture is being shown , just as if a camera in a museum or on an animation stand were moving in and out on an oil painting . |
| 13 | Now , if you see a ploughed field today , it looks exactly as if a lot of pigs have been a-hoggin' and a-rootin' on it up . ’ |
| 14 | Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence . |
| 15 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 16 | The intention of the parties is determinative both of whether a third party right has been created and of the identity of any potential third party claimant . |
| 17 | Hanging on the door is a dressing gown and in the wardrobe a change of clothes given to her when she arrived in the refuge with only the clothes she stood up in and a shopping bag . |
| 18 | Cisterns were belching and gurgling near by and a tap on the wall dripped into a bucket with a deep musical note . |
| 19 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 20 | Erm yea , i I 'll come back on that a couple of points , erm regarding Mr Donson erm and the Southern Ryedale and York greenbelt local plan inquiry . |
| 21 | Even for the much more limited requirement of a qualification based purely on whether a significant proportion of the likely distribution of outcomes gives a negative net worth , there must be some implicit formulation of a distribution and a cut-off percentage . |
| 22 | Er , could we just er wait , sh he should be arriving in just five minutes , if we could come back to that a a later , could we ? |
| 23 | I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases . |
| 24 | Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two . |
| 25 | We are not interested here in whether a second investigator who slavishly follows in the footsteps of his predecessor gets the same results . |
| 26 | The European Commission of Human Rights will rule today on whether a complaint by The Sunday Times , The Observer , and The Guardian that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair can go ahead . |
| 27 | Instead Beatrice retreated behind long translations of French poetry , light satire and erudite literary discussion , almost as if a part of her had died . |
| 28 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 29 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 30 | That is , in the subject of proposition 55 ‘ thought ’ is opposed to ‘ reality ’ almost as if a language game as a whole could be said to be justified by something outside it . |